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...DeFORD by David Shetzline. 21 7 pages. Random House...
David Shetzline, 32, has wandered through the U.S.-from his birthplace in Yonkers, N.Y., to the small ranch in Oregon where he now lives. He has been a ditchdigger, an army parachutist and a college student (Cornell and Columbia). DeFord, his first novel, reflects his experience and the diversity of the nation he knows so well...
Like the author, Lyle DeFord is a wanderer come to rest on the West Coast. He is a carpenter, and a good one, a descendant of hardworking, hard-luck ancestors who moved to the U.S. in 1772. He is as old as this century; he rode the rods in the '20s, and after a life of honest work, he subsists on social security. He journeys East for an old relative's funeral, and in New York City he is knocked down by a heart attack. His hand-crafted wooden suitcase is still in hand, his treasured copy...
During the last period, in an effort either to keep the score down or increase the versatility of his players, Coach Cooney Weiland had his defensemen playing forward and his wings on defense. This plan failed, however, as defensemen Bill DeFord, Dick McLaughlin and Greg Downes exploded for three goals in two and a half minutes...
...FRANK DEFORD...